Description
| Product ID: | 9780198732198 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Nuns of Sant' Ambrogio |
| Subtitle: | The True Story of a Convent in Scandal |
| Authors: | Author: Hubert Wolf |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Christianity, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Christian communities & monasticism, Italy, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The true story of a scandal of epic proportions at the Roman convent of Sant' Ambrogio in the late 1850s. Discovered recently in a Vatican archive by one of the world's leading papal historians, it is a tale of deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Catholic Church. Discovered in a secret Vatican archive, this is the true, never-before-told story of poison, murder, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth century convent.In 1858, Katherina von Hohenzollern, a German princess recently inducted into the convent of Sant''Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. The subsequent investigation by the Church''s Inquisition uncovered the extraordinary secrets of Sant''Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent''s beautiful young mistress, Maria Luissa. What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical proportions, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail by one of the world''s leading papal historians. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing upon written testimony and original documents, Hubert Wolf tells an incredible story of deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Catholic Church. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-02-26 |